{"id":2333668,"date":"2026-03-17T19:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2333668"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:40:06","slug":"ryan-goslings-248-million-amazon-movie-is-an-outer-space-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ryan-goslings-248-million-amazon-movie-is-an-outer-space-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Gosling\u2019s $248 million Amazon movie is an outer-space blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F03%2Fnewspress-collage-ncyyj9qou-1773774787304.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261773760447\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--review alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n\t\t<span class=\"inline-module--review__eyebrow subsection-heading-semi__label\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tmovie review\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 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Rated\u00a0PG-13\u00a0(thematic material and suggestive references). In theaters March 20.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now entering the pantheon of lost-and-alone movies is \u201cProject Hail Mary,\u201d a hugely entertaining \u2014 and just plain huge \u2014 surprise during a depressing month that\u2019s typically Hollywood\u2019s dumping ground for wince-worthy trash.<\/p>\n<p>It hits you like an asteroid watching what amounts to a bona fide summer blockbuster smack dab in the middle of March, just when we\u2019re sick of hearing about the same 10 Oscar movies over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>Wiping the cinematic slate clean, Amazon\u2019s big-swing is an old-school outer-space adventure with a contemporary attitude and enough creative touches to lend it a new-car smell.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a lovably weird story with hopelessly stranded hints of \u201cThe Martian,\u201d \u201cLife of Pi\u201d and \u201cCastaway.\u201d And, yes, there\u2019s a Wilson \u2014 albeit an actually alive one.<\/p>\n<p>The wizards of odd here are directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/02\/05\/the-lego-movie-is-a-blockheaded-adventure\/\">The Lego Movie<\/a>\u201d and the \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/06\/01\/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse-review-a-brilliant-sequel\/\">Spider-Verse<\/a>\u201d series. I\u2019ve never met them, but their work suggests they\u2019re the sort of guys you\u2019d wanna meet in the William Shatner autograph line at a Star Trek convention.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--columnist inline-module--more--thirds\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading subsection-heading subsection-heading--single-line \">\n\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"subsection-heading__sub\">Johnny Oleksinski<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Their quirky latest has heart, sci-fi thrills, funny jokes and stupendous special effects worthy of its staggering price tag \u2014 reportedly $248 million. That\u2019s more than some island nations\u2019 GDPs. Yet even though it ranks among the most expensive movies ever made, \u201cMary\u201d is cozy and genuinely adorable.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s enormous appeal starts with star <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/27\/media\/watch-ryan-gosling-throws-a-hail-mary-on-this-jeopardy-parody\/\">Ryan Gosling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not that Gosling needs to be sold as a leading man at this stage in his career, but this is the first time I\u2019ve been convinced he really is one.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s funny, obviously. The actor always comes prepared with that Paul Rudd prankster energy. Or, rather, Ken-ergy. And while he\u2019s been plenty emotional in the past in films such as \u201cThe Notebook,\u201d \u201cLa La Land\u201d and \u201cBlade Runner 2049,\u201d gravitas hasn\u2019t been his forte. He\u2019s a goof.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Ryan Gosling plays Ryland Grace in \u201cProject Hail Mary.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Finally, his \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d character Ryland Grace lets Gosling explore the full palate of his abilities. The stakes for Grace are much greater than sky-high. He has the unenviable task of saving humanity from an existential threat while solo in the vast cosmos far from home.<\/p>\n<p>At the film\u2019s start, he wakes up from a medically induced coma on a spaceship, like Ripley in \u201cAliens\u201d only with fewer exploding abdomens, shaggy, confused and years away from Earth. The other two crewmen are dead.<\/p>\n<p>Flashbacks throughout show how Grace was plucked from obscurity as a high school physics teacher to help on a top-secret government effort \u2014 Project Hail Mary, run by Eva (Sandra H\u00fcller).<\/p>\n<p>The German actress is the movie\u2019s secret sauce. Her role isn\u2019t giant, but she gives Eva more mystery and moral complexity than most other actresses could manage.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The science teacher is tasked with helping to save the Earth from an organism that\u2019s eating the sun. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Eva\u2019s mission is to stop some unexplained organisms called astrophage from \u201ceating\u201d the sun. The \u201cred dots\u201d\u2019 appetite has given humans\u00a0about 30 years left to live. Tops. But the group has discovered a unique planet 13 lightyears away from Earth that\u2019s somehow immune to their devastation.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly that\u2019s where Grace has been sent to figure out how this world is surviving, but the circumstances of why he\u2019s\u00a0actually\u00a0there are blurry till the end.\u00a0The twist is a meaty one.<\/p>\n<p>This is when things get cute. While attempting to complete his research mission, Grace makes first contact with an alien.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Soon, \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d becomes a man-and-alien buddy movie. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When the two species have their initial encounter, Lord and Miller\u00a0mine\u00a0Spielbergian chills that bring to mind \u201cE.T.\u201d But they also treat it as an intergalactic Tinder date. It\u2019s silly. <\/p>\n<p>The second half of \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d becomes a man-and-alien buddy comedy that will have\u00a0the upcoming\u201dMandalorian and Grogu\u201d sweating.<\/p>\n<p>His extraterrestrial pal is Rocky, a spider-like rock creature whose\u00a0world\u00a0is also being ravaged by the astrophage. Together, maybe they can stop the infestation.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Phil Lord and Christopher Miller\u00a0mine\u00a0Spielbergian chills. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rocky is the lovechild of R2-D2 and the Grand Canyon; a clay-colored, curious, beep-boop rascal whose speech Grace eventually is able to translate. Before we get to know him, Rocky is a little freaky. Good on the designers for making a movie and not\u00a0just\u00a0a lucrative Christmas stocking stuffer.<\/p>\n<p>The little guy is, I\u2019ll admit, somewhat farfetched. As is how fast Grace figures how to interpret his clicky language, as are the rapidly rattled off scientific explanations for astrophage and the experiments the duo conduct. \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d makes \u201cThe Martian\u201d look like a Scientific American cover story.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t really mind the ridiculousness, though. The film is so much fun. It tugs at the heartstrings often and Rocky is so brilliantly animated to the point of complete believability.\u00a0Gosling is great.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And, during a moment in which movies tend to be either cynically corporate or bleaker than a black hole, \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d dares to be about that once-great driver of drama: Friendship.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>movie review PROJECT HAIL MARY Running time:\u00a0157 minutes. Rated\u00a0PG-13\u00a0(thematic material and suggestive references). In theaters March 20. Now entering the pantheon of lost-and-alone movies is \u201cProject Hail Mary,\u201d a hugely entertaining \u2014 and just plain huge \u2014 surprise during a depressing month that\u2019s typically Hollywood\u2019s dumping ground for wince-worthy trash. 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